Twister

Synopsis

The Dark Side of Nature.

TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.

No star rating; it's not impossible to judge as a narrative work or anything...it's objectively an outright howler, but I find it difficult to look at as anything other than an artifact of a certain mid-90's Venn diagram intersection of special effects and marketing, where you could still pack a theater with the simple promise of a convincing illusion (which this frankly isn't anymore).

Huge announcement Letterboxd. Even though I am a grown man, I still have not decided what I want to be when I grow up. Well, I hadn't decided until this rewatch of one of the greatest films ever made, Twister. Your probably thinking to yourself, oh, FilmApe wants to be a storm chaser. If you are thinking that, you are wrong. Nope, I have decided that I want to be Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And no, I don't want pursue a career in acting, I just want to be PSH.

I absolutely loved this movie as a kid! I remember laughing with my parents in the car about that flying cow after we saw it in the theater.

The Indiana Jones movies made me want to been an archeologist in elementary school, and when I hit Middle school it was Twister that made me want to be a storm chaser. I must have doodled hundreds of tornadoes in my school note books.

My nostalgia for this movie is strong, but I think it still holds up remarkably well. Shockingly the worst bit CGI in the whole movie is the cheesy shot of a satellite over earth at the start of the…

for some reason this movie was on tv one day at my cousins house when I was like 10 or something and I was entranced by it. I wanted so badly to be a storm chaser, but after years of wanting that I realized you have to like science and I hate science so... that dream died out. I think I might have wanted the love story aspect of this movie more than I wanted to be a storm chaser. don’t get me wrong I still want(ed) to be a badass woman like helen hunt and chase twisters, but I still want(ed) a bill paxton by my side.

This is one of the first films I remember seeing. Imagine a 5 year old kid being awed at the idea that there can exist a storm that can literally blow away a whole house. Naturally, I loved it. Recently, I thought that must be nostalgia, but this is actually better then I remember it. One of the better blockbusters of the '90s.